CAUSTICUM.
EAR.
► Objective. ► Swelling of the external ear, with contractive pains, [1]. ► Swelling of the
meatus, with twinging earache and discharge of bloody matter, [1].
► Suppuration and discharge from within the ear, with
offensive odor, [1]. ►
During eructations, air rushes into the ear, [9]. ► Subjective. [280.] ► Severe boring pain in the right fossa, below the ear,
afterwards, on pressing upon it, a bruised pain, [8]. ► At one time boring, at another, pulsating-throbbing, behind
the left ear (fourth day), [1]. ►
Pressive pain in the mastoid process, [6]. ► Sharp intermitting stitches near the right ear, in the
mastoid process, [1]. ►
Stitches, like boring knife-stitches, externally behind the left ear, with frequent sudden
general sweat, lasting eight minutes, several times a day (seventh day), [1]. ► Stitches on the outer
margin of the ear, with burning pain, especially in the evening, in bed, [1]. ► Tearings beneath the left
ear, which soon disappear, at 4 P.M., [8]. ► Stopped sensation in the ears, in the morning, [1]. ► Stopped sensation in the
right ear, [1]. ►
Sensation of contraction in the left ear and in the whole side of the head, in the evening,
after lying down; he was unable to sleep upon that side; the flesh felt as if it had been
separated from the bone, when touched, but on firm pressure the sensation was relieved, [1]. [290.] ► Boring pain in the right ear, as from a borer (after
three-quarters of an hour), [8]. ►
Sensation in the ears as if everything were dragging outward, and as if they would burst,
like a tearing mingled with itching, [1]. ► Stitches in the right ear, paroxysmal, and in rapid
succession, [10]. ►
Tearing-stitching in the ear, with a roaring, as from a storm of wind, [1]. ► Tearings in the left ear
(twelfth day), [8]. ►
Twinging in the ears, [1]. ►
Sensation of jerking outward in the ear, [9]. ► Crawling, as from an insect, with itching-biting, in the left
ear (after a quarter of an hour), [8]. ► Itching in the ear, beginning in the throat, along the
Eustachian tube, [1]. ►
Itching in the left ear, [9]. [300.] ► A sensation as though
a cold wind were blowing into the right meatus auditorius, [8].
► Pain in the right meatus, in the evening (after
forty-eight hours), [1]. ►
On cleaning the ear, the meatus is painful, as if sore and ulcerated, [9]. ► A sticking-itching in front
of the right meatus, [3]. ►
Tearing in the drum, with tensive confusion of the head, [1].
► Hearing. ►
*Sounds echo in the ears, and he hears with difficulty, [1]. ► Reechoing in the ears,
every morning, [1]. ►►
*Words and steps re-echo in her ears, [1]. ► Ringing in the left ear, [8].
► Ringing in front of the right ear, in the evening, [1]. [310.] ► *Roaring before the ears (fifth day), [1]. ► *Roaring before the ears,
frequently during the day, [1]. ►
Roaring of short duration in the right ear (after a quarter of an hour), [8]. ► Roaring in the evening,
shortly before going to sleep, first in one ear, then in the other, for a minute, [1]. ► Rushing sound
before the ears, as of a waterfall, with difficult hearing, [1].
► Clear singing in the ears, as of crickets at a
distance, followed by throbbing, then again singing (after eight hours), [10]. ► Thundering tones in the
right ear, [1]. ►
Whistling in the left ear, lasting only a short time (after one hour and a quarter), [8].
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Swelling of the nose frequently in the morning, which
disappears in the evening, [1]. ►
The hairs fall out of the nostrils, where he usually had very many, [1]. [320.] ►
Discharge of offensive mucus from the nose, with sneezing, [1].
► After drinking, the nose waters and discharges more
moisture than usual, [1]. ►
Catarrh, with nightly dryness of the throat and stopped nose, when lying (after sixteen
day), [1]. ►
Catarrh, with cough and scraping in the larynx, [1]. ► Coryza, with stoppage of the nose and sneezing (second day), [8]. ► Coryza and
hoarseness, so that he could not speak aloud (after fourteen days), [1]. ► Transient coryza, with
sneezing (almost immediately), [9]. ► Violent coryza and cough, with pains in the chest, drawings
in the limbs, frequent waking at night, and chilliness, [1].
► Profuse fluent coryza, with agglutination of the eyes,
in the morning (thirteenth day), [1]. ► Severe fluent coryza for two weeks, with painful cough a
night and headache, for seven days. [330.] ► *Stooped coryza, with great stoppage of the nose; breathing through
the nose and mouth was impeded, [1]. ► Severe stopped and fluent coryza, with rawness in the throat
and smarting in the chest, caused by severe cough (after thirty-two days), [1]. ► He blows blood from the
nose, in the morning, several mornings in succession (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Profuse nose-bleed
(seventh and ninth days), [1]. ►
Profuse bleeding from the left nostril (after eight hours), [7].
► Ineffectual attempts to sneeze, [3]. ► Great sneezing
(immediately), [1]. ►
Frequent sneezing in the morning, [1]. ► Frequent sneezing in the morning, after rising (second day), [8]. ► Stoppage of the nose,
[1]. ► Sensations.
[340.] ► The septum
of the nose is painful to touch, [1]. ► Burning in the nostrils, as in coryza, [1]. ► Drawing in the wing of the
nose, extending down from the right external canthus, [1].
► Cutting-tearing through the wing of the nose, [8]. ► Soreness within
the nose, [1]. ► A
sore pain in the lower portion of the nose, as in severe coryza, [1]. ► Tickling in the left
nostril, relieved by external pressure, [8]. ► Itching in the nose, as if coryza would appear, [3]. ► Itching in the
nostrils, [3]. ► Smell.
► Loss of smell, with completely stopped nose, [1].
FACE.
► Objective. [350.] ► The face has a very
sickly look (seventh day), [1]. ►
Very yellow face (twenty-first day), [1]. ► During menstruation, the face was quite yellow, [1]. ► Discolored face,
yellowish about the temples, pale-bluish lips, [1]. ► Cheeks. ► Swelling of
the cheeks, with throbbing pain, [1]. ► Throbbing and twitching in the muscles of the cheeks, though
but slightly visible (third day), [1]. ► Burning on the right malar bone, (sixth day), [8]. ► Cooling-burning on the
malar bone, [8]. ►
Sensitive burning pain in the upper part of the cheeks, in front of the ears, as if an
eruption would appear there, [3]. ► *Transient violent drawing pain in the right cheek, and then in the
ear (after two days), [9]. [360.] ► Sticking in the
cheeks, over the lower jaw, [1]. ►
Tearing in the left cheek-bone, [1]. ► Tearing and sticking in the cheeks, [1]. ► Lips. ► Swelling of the lower lip, with papulous eruption, with
sticking and crawling in it, [1]. ► Spasmodic sensation in the lips, [1]. ► Fine tearings in the lips, [8]. ► Pain in the lips,
as if sore, [10]. ►
Soreness of the left corner of the mouth (seventh day), [9].
► Chin. ►
Inflammatory swelling beneath the chin, as if an abscess would form, with burning pain, [1]. ► Tensive drawing
pain in the lower part of the chin, [3]. [370.] ► Burning-cutting pain
in the chin, in the right side, as if a piece of glass were cutting outward (after three
hours), [3]. ►
Tearing in the middle of the chin, in the bone, [1]. ► Tearings on the lower part of the chin, [1]. ► *He could separate the jaws
only with great difficulty, and could not open the mouth as usual; it seemed as
if the throat below the jaw were swollen or tense, [1].
►► *Sensation of tension and pain in the jaws, so that
she could only with difficulty open the mouth, and also could not eat well, because a tooth
seemed too long, [1]. ►
Painfulness of the right inferior maxillary joint (after half an hour), [10]. [In Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura, it is “left.”
-C. Hg.] ► Rheumatic pains in the lower jaw (after
a quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
Burning pains in the lower jaw, [1]. ► Prickling-digging in the lower jaw, [6]. ► Drawing, first from the
right, then from the left ramus of the lower jaw, towards the chin, and thence back again in
the direction of the angle of the mouth, on each side, [1].
[380.] ► Tearing in
the right lower jaw, [8].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Looseness of some of the teeth, [1]. ► Loose incisors, [9]. ► *Painful looseness of
the incisors, [1]. ►
A peculiar sensation in the roots of the teeth, so that he must gnash the teeth, [8]. ► A severe jerk in
the teeth, almost immediately, [1]. ► *Pain in the sound teeth on drawing in the cold air, [1]. ► Burning pain in
hollow teeth, while eating and drinking, [1]. ► *Boring pain in a lower back tooth, extending to the nose and eye, [1].
► *A painful prickling-digging in the lower back teeth,
extending as far as the ear (after one hour), [6].
[390.] ► Drawings in
the teeth (after twenty-six hours), [1]. ► Drawing pain in the teeth of the left lower row, from the
articulation to the chin; in the afternoon, [8]. ► Dull pressure, as from without, in the roots of both anterior
upper back teeth (after half an hour), [3]. ► Stitches in the teeth, on biting on them (after twelve
hours), [1]. ► *Dull
stitches in the upper back teeth, extending upward, [1]. ► *Dull stitches in the lower
back teeth, extending downward, [1]. ► Painful shootings into the teeth on opening the mouth, [1]. ► Tearing pain in
all the teeth, as if they would fall out, in the forenoon (second day), [8]. ► *Tearing in both right rows of
the teeth, extending into the zygoma; both jaws of this side are painful to pressure, and on
chewing, as if bruised, [8]. ► *Tearing in the diseased root of the left lower jaw
(third day), [8]. [400.] ► Tearings in the roots
of the lower teeth, in the morning, returning every minute, [1].
► Tearing in the last back tooth of the left upper row,
worse in the open air, at 2 P.M., [8]. ► In the morning, the teeth and gums are very sensitive, [1]. ► Painful
sensitiveness of the teeth to touch, [1]. ► Severe pain in the teeth, as if sore, in the morning,
followed by throbbing in them; the pain was relieved when the gum bled, [1]. ► Pain in the teeth, as if
ulcerating, at night and also during the day, if she moves the mouth, [1]. ► Toothache in the right
upper and lower back teeth, [3]. ►
Toothache, with much spitting of saliva (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Drawing toothache in the
second right back tooth, as if more in the external surface, and extending up into the
temples, [3]. ►
Violent drawing toothache, with itching between the teeth, [9].
[410.] ► Pressive
toothache, [1]. ►
Sticking toothache (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Tearing toothache, extending into the head and left eye, [1]. ► Toothache,
consisting of pressing-tearing and sticking combined, day and night, with red
(erysipelatous) swelling of the cheek, and a swollen pimple on the gum, which suppurates,
lasting seven days, [1]. ►
Throbbing toothache in a diseased back tooth, [1]. ► Throbbing toothache, with painful gum, so that he could
not chew, [1]. ► Gums.
► Swelling of the gum, [1]. ► Swelling of the gum, with
excoriation of the pudenda on urinating (sixteenth day), [1].
► Swelling of the gum of the left side, with great
sensitiveness while eating, and with spasmodic pain in it, in the evening, [1]. ► Swelling and painfulness of
the gum, in front and behind, [1]. [420.] ► Profuse bleeding of
the gum (tenth day), [1]. ►
Dull drawing pain in the gum of the lower jaw, [3]. ► *The gum is painfully sensitive without pain in the teeth,
[1]. ► Tongue.
► A painful vesicle on the tongue, [1]. ► *A painful vesicle on the tip
of the tongue, [1]. ►
Vesicles on the margin of the tongue, [10]. ► Dry tongue and thirst (after ten hours), [1]. ► Pain in the tongue on the
left side, as if he had bitten himself, [9]. ► Burning on the tip of the tongue, [8]. ► Pain, as if burnt, on the
tip and margin of the tongue, [10]. [430.] ► Burning-scraping
sensation on the tip of the tongue, as if burnt with something glowing hot, with much
accumulation of saliva and insipid taste, the whole day, not relieved by eating, [10]. ► Sore pain upon
and beneath the tongue, and on the palate, [1]. ► General Mouth. ►
Swelling of the inside of the cheek; in chewing he bites it, [9].
► At night, open mouth and dryness on account of it, [1]. ► Dryness in the
mouth, with thirst, the whole day, [8]. ► Dryness in the mouth and on the lips, without thirst, [1]. ► Dryness of the
mouth, at night (after twelve days), [1]. ► Great dryness in the mouth, without thirst, the whole
forenoon, [1]. ►
Burning dryness in the mouth, [1]. ► The most violent pains in the mouth, œsophagus, and
epigastric region (immediately), [13]. [440.] ► Burning-scraping
sensation in the mouth (after smelling), [10]. ► Roughness of the mouth, as if it were covered with a skin,
after a scraping sensation on the tongue, [10]. ► Sensation of burning and soreness on the palate, lasting a
quarter of an hour, [8]. ►
Stitches in the left side of the palate, [8]. ► Crawling and burning-pricking on the posterior portion of the
palate (after half an hour), [8]. ► A sore painful spot on the hard palate, [1]. ► A place on the anterior
portion of the palate which pains, as if suppurating, when touched with the tongue, [3]. ► Saliva. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth (after one hour), [8]. ► Accumulation in
the mouth of water of a rancid taste, [8]. ► Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth, in the forenoon,
with qualmishness (second day), [1]. [450.] ► Much accumulation of
saliva, [10]. ► An
acrid fluid rises into the mouth, [1]. ► After the stool (the third that day), salty and slimy water
flows from the mouth (waterbrash), [1]. ► The mouth waters and more moisture collects in the nose, when
walking after eating, [1]. ►
Taste. ► Viscid glutinous taste (after fourth
day), [1]. ►
Offensive taste, [1]. ►
Offensive taste, as from a disordered stomach, in the afternoon, for several days in
succession, [8]. ►
*Fatty taste, [1]. ►
Bitter taste in the mouth, though only transient, [8].
► After eating, the taste of the food remains a long time
in the mouth, [1]. [460.]
► Diminished taste for food, [1].
THROAT.
► Objective.
► Audible cracking deep in the throat, [1]. ► Distension of the left side
of the throat, with sensation as if he would suffocate; he was obliged to loosen his
neck-band, [8]. ►
Mucus in the throat after a meal, [1]. ► *Mucus collects in the throat which he cannot loosen by hawking,
but is obliged to swallow it, half an hour after dinner,
[8]. ► Frequent
clots of mucus in the throat, [8]. ► Hawking of mucus, [1]. ► Hawking of mucus, in the morning, [1]. ► *Hawking of mucus, with pain in
the pit of the throat, [1]. ► Hawking and expectoration of much mucus, with sore sensation
and burning in the throat, from 5 P.M. till night, [8].
[470.] ► Frequent
hawking of mucus, which immediately accumulates again, every half hour, [8]. ► Subjective. ► Dryness of the back of the throat, for three days, [8]. ► Dryness of the
throat, in the morning, [1]. ►
*Dryness in the throat, noticed when swallowing, followed by scraping along down the throat,
[1]. ► Dryness of
the throat, with dry hacking cough, [8]. ► Dryness of the throat, without thirst, [1]. ► The throat is now dry, now
moist, [8]. ►
Nauseous sensation in the throat, [1]. ► Cold sensation in the throat, which rapidly presses upward
over the palate, with profuse accumulation of saliva, [10].
► The throat feels swollen and raw (after two days), [1]. [480.] ► Contractive sensation in the throat, frequently, [1]. ► The throat feels
too narrow and swollen, [1]. ►
Sensation of tightness and suffocation in the throat, on which account he was obliged to
loosen the band around the neck, [8]. ► Pressure in the throat, behind the palate, and on the
epiglottis, [1]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the throat, on deep breathing, [1].
► Choking pressure in the throat, in the morning on
waking, as from swallowing a large crust of bread, [1].
► The throat feels torn internally, not when swallowing,
but on making an exertion with the head, as also on lifting or carrying anything, [1]. ► Sore sensation in
the throat behind the palate, [1]. ► Sore pain in the throat, [1].
► Burning-sticking sore pain in the throat, and in the
uvula, increased on swallowing, [1]. [490.] ► Sore throat, as if
the attachments of the tongue had grown fast, [1]. ► Sore throat, as from a lump in it, with sticking pain in it, [1]. ► Excessively sore
throat, so that he could scarcely swallow on account of stitches in it like needles, an
intolerable sensation, lasting from morning till afternoon, but much relieved after dinner, [8]. ► Raw, hoarse
throat, with sore pain, both when speaking or swallowing, and when not, [1]. ► Throat raw, chest
oppressed, with febrile coldness, [1]. ► Rawness in the throat, and when breathing a sensation as if
he had inspired to little air (after half an hour), [8].
► *Rawness in the throat, with sensation like heartburn
(lasting half an hour), (after half an hour), [8]. ► *Rawness and tickling in the throat, with dry cough, and some
expectoration only after long coughing, [8].
► Scraping and clawing in the throat, with heartburn, [9]. ► Scraping-clawing
pain in the throat, with sensation on empty swallowing as if he was obliged to swallow over
a lump, [9]. ► Fauces
and Pharynx. [500.] ► Scraping in the fauces, especially noticed in the evening and
on swallowing, [1]. ►
A dull pressure in the pharynx, as if under the sternum; it seems as though too large a
morsel had been swallowed, [3]. ► Swallowing. ► Constant
inclination to swallow, [1]. ►
She was obliged to swallow constantly; the throat seemed as though not wide enough, and it
felt dry, [1]. ►
After eating, it seems as though the food remained stuck in the throat, [1].
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Hunger unusually early, [8].
► A kind of ravenous hunger, [1]. ► Excessive hunger, which
causes headache, relieved by eating, [1]. ► He eats with too much haste, [1].
► He head appetite, but when eating the food immediately
caused nausea, [1]. [510.]
► She had appetite, but without having nausea it seemed
as though she did not dare to eat, [1]. ► Little appetite, but the food is relished, [1]. ► Little appetite, but much
thirst, especially after eating, [1]. ► Appetite is wanting; hunger, but food is not relished; for
three days, [1]. ►
Constant sensation of satiety and loss of appetite, followed after an hour by hunger, with
natural taste of food, [1]. ►
If she attempted to eat without being hungry she soon became satiated and full, as though
the stomach refused everything, and she would have felt better had she not eaten, [1]. ► If he made
preparations to eat, having appetite, and began to eat, the appetite immediately
disappeared, [1]. ►
He was able to eat only smoked meats; fresh meats nauseated him, even to vomiting, [1]. ► Aversion to
sweets, [1]. ► Thirst.
► Much thirst, several mornings, [1]. [520.] ► *Great thirst for several days (after two days), [1]. ► Great thirst for
something cold, from forenoon till 3 P.M. (after three hours), [8]. ► Great thirst for beer, [1]. ► Eructation and
Hiccough. ► It seems as though she would
constantly eructate, which, however, does not happen, but all manner of trouble is caused
thereby, [1]. ►
Eructations of air (after half an hour), [8]. ► Eructations, as when undigested food remains in the stomach,
[1]. ► Eructations of
the food, five hours after eating, [1]. ► Eructations having an odor of the food, [1]. ► Eructations with an odor of
musk (after fourteen hours), [8]. ► Eructations tasting of the soup taken at breakfast (after one
hour), [8]. [530.]
► Eructations having a pleasant taste, almost like
almonds, soon after taking, [8]. ►
Eructations, with choking in the œsophagus, so that it impedes breathing; this disappears
after repeated eructations (after one hour), [8]. ► Empty, tasteless eructations of air, [6], [10]. ► Frequent eructations of tasteless water, or rising of it into
the mouth, with nausea, which disappears after the eructations, [8]. ► Frequent, loud, explosive
eructations, which continue a long time, [8]. ► Very frequent, mostly empty eructations (ninth day), [1]. ► Suppressed
eructations; they rise only to the middle of the throat, where they seem to remain, [1]. ► Violent
eructations, with a sour taste (after fourteen days), [1].
► *Burning hot eructations, in the afternoon and evening,
without bad taste, [1]. ► It seems as though lime were being dissolved in the stomach,
which constantly causes a bubbling-up, with a continual rolling eructation of much air
(after one hour), [8]. [540.]
► Gulping of water several times, with soreness in the
anus, [8]. ►
Waterbrash, several times in the forenoon, with salty taste of the rising water (after
seventeen days), [1]. ►
A kind of waterbrash; it seems to her, in the evening on lying down, as though cool water
rose from the stomach, which she was constantly obliged to spit out, [1]. ► Hiccough (after a quarter
of an hour), [8]. ►
Heartburn. ► Heartburn in the mouth, which
lasted a long time (after a quarter of an hour), [3]. ► Heartburn, after supper, [1].
► Frequent burning rises from the stomach, as though he
had eaten pepper, [1]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea, immediately, [1]. ► Nausea, even while
eating, [1]. ►
Nausea, every morning, [1]. [550.]
► Nausea, in the evening when beginning to eat, [1]. ► Nausea after
supper, which had been eaten with a good appetite, [1].
► Nausea, followed after half an hour by hunger, in the
afternoon, [1]. ►
Nausea, with empty sensations in the stomach, and acid taste in the mouth, [1]. ► Nausea in the stomach, as
if qualmish, without vomiting (after half an hour), [8].
► Nausea in the stomach, like an inclination to vomit,
with frequent gulping up of water into the mouth, which causes constant spitting, [8]. ► Nausea and
inclination to vomit, the whole afternoon till evening, [1].
► Nausea, with anxiety, [1].
► Great nausea, on waking from the evening sleep, [1]. ► Frequent nausea
after the stool, [1]. [560.]
► Sensation of nausea before eating, with hunger, [1]. ► Qualmishness in
the stomach (after a few hours), [1]. ► Qualmishness and weakness in the stomach, with alternations
of chill and heat, [8]. ►
Vomiting of clotted blood at night, [1]. ► Sour vomiting, followed by frequent sour eructations, [1]. ► Stomach. ► “Weakness of the stomach,” for a long time after
the poisoning, [13]. ►
Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, although he had eaten sufficiently at dinner, at 4
P.M., [8]. ► Sensation
of fasting in the stomach, [8]. ► Sensation as of a disordered stomach, with distension of the
abdomen (fifteenth day), [1]. ►
Constant sensation of pleasant warmth in the stomach and abdomen, [8]. [570.] ► *Pains in the stomach, which were relieved after lying down,
[1]. ► Pain in the
stomach and uprising, which disappeared after dinner, [8].
► Violent pain in the stomach, in the morning soon after
rising, increased by every sudden motion, with heat in the right side of the head; she was
obliged to lie down, and the pain seemed now in the stomach, and now in the chest (after
twenty-seven days), [1]. ►
Tensive pain in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ► Any, even slight, tightness of the clothes about the stomach
and hips is very oppressive and unendurable, [1]. ► A contractive, not very painful, sensation in the epigastric
region (after one hour), [8]. ►
Cramp in the stomach, [1]. ►
Cramp in the stomach, like a pressure and contraction, in the morning on waking from a
frightful dream, with nausea and collection of water in the mouth (twenty-first day), [1]. ► Clawing in the pit
of the stomach, [1]. ►
*Pinching-clawing in the pit of the stomach, on deep breathing, [1]. [580.] ►
Pressure in the stomach after breakfast (after five days), [1].
► Pressure in the stomach, in the morning after rising
from bed, and even when sitting, [1]. ► Pressure on the stomach, in the morning fasting, soon
followed by contractive sensation in the abdomen (after two days), [1]. ► Pressure in the stomach on
waking at night, with perfect consciousness, which she did not feel in the morning after
being completely awake, [1]. ►
Pressure in the stomach and abdomen above and below the navel, with diarrhœa three times at
night, with periodic stitches from the back forward to the right side of the abdomen,
arresting breathing (second day), [1]. ► Pressure in the pit of the stomach, [3]. ► Severe pressure in the pit
of the stomach, [1]. ►
Pressure in the orifice of the stomach, increased by leaning against the edge of the table,
and also by reading aloud, by talking much, by lying upon the back, and when the cold air
strikes the abdomen, [1]. ►
Continued stitchlike pressure in the pit of the stomach, [4].
► Rhythmical chilling pressure in the pit of the stomach,
as from a piece of ice, [6]. [590.]
► Stitches in the stomach, for ten minutes, [1]. ► Stitches in the
pit of the stomach, which seem to contract the heart, [1].
► Bruised pain in the stomach, also noticed when pressing
upon it (after an hour and a half), [8]. ► Crawling in the epigastric region, [1].® 2000
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